The US could put a great lineup for the Nobel with, say,
Bradbury, Leonard, Westlake and Cormac McCarthy
--I did not say Updike or Oates. Crime and SF writers have
been for decades among the most interesting US writers. Not a
great secret, except to The Establishment.

************* I would second Cormac McCarthy. BLOOD MERIDIAN
is stunning. CHILD OF GOD ain't too shaggy, either. Does it
only go to living people? I'd put Willeford high up on the
short list.

I'm reading Ross MacDonald's ZEBRA-STRIPED HEARSE right now,
and I'm relieved. I didn't much care for his DARK TUNNEL, and
I was not looking forward to the prospect of reading another
of his and deciding I didn't like him. I like this one. It's
got a lot more soul that the first.

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